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Hive Alive!

Sweet Virginia offers teachers an exciting and interactive Hive Alive Curriculum designed to bring to life the magic of honey bees for elementary school students. Teachers can access our lesson plans for FREE on our website.

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Bee Liner

In the coming year, we will be launching an interactive Virtual Reality honey bee experience in classrooms across the country! We look forward to driving the Bee Liner to your neighborhood soon.

Perhaps the most important thing that we can do to help the honey bees is to teach children to understand the role that honey bees play and to care about them.

Allison GillespieHives in the City: Keeping Honey Bees Alive in an Urban World

Education Partner

We partnered with the National Geographic Society to produce a two-minute video that demonstrates the importance of honey bees. At Sweet Virginia Foundation, our mission is to provide in-classroom instruction and host field trips to our honey bee sanctuary delivering a hands-on experience to students of all ages. Check out the video to learn more about these pollinators.

Testimonial

“Having the children involved in the various parts of the program from nectar, to the queen bee, drone bee, worker bee, touching and smelling honeycomb, and the fantastic travel observation hive to safely view the live bees up close…”

Nan Markham, Director, Epiphany Weekday School, Alexandria VA

“The information that was delivered was very age appropriate which kept the students engaged throughout the time. The students and teachers here at St. Mary’s can’t say enough about the wonderful learning opportunities that Sweet Virginia has to offer!”

“The children wholeheartedly embraced the honey bee unit. They learned to work in groups, using their critical thinking skills to come up with theories on the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder and possible solutions.”

Robin Peacemaker, STEM Lab, Loudoun County Day School, Leesburg, VA

“With this hands-on Hive Alive program, our children, the next generation of honey bee guardians, learned a vital lesson—bees, flowers and people—we all need each other.”